Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Five pounds is all the coyne That will I freely give : I have , Heere , take it , sir , with all my heart , So you will let me live . Five pounds ! ( quoth he ) dost thinke Ile sell My reputation so ? Five hundred will not satisfie : My ...
... Five pounds is all the coyne That will I freely give : I have , Heere , take it , sir , with all my heart , So you will let me live . Five pounds ! ( quoth he ) dost thinke Ile sell My reputation so ? Five hundred will not satisfie : My ...
Page 135
... five dayes to use forty pound . But because he is very shortly ( nay he knowes not how suddenly ) to travaile to Venice , to Jerusalem or so , and would not willingly bee disfurnished of gold , he doth therefore request the citizen to ...
... five dayes to use forty pound . But because he is very shortly ( nay he knowes not how suddenly ) to travaile to Venice , to Jerusalem or so , and would not willingly bee disfurnished of gold , he doth therefore request the citizen to ...
Page 24
... five pounds , should have the five pounds for his labour for finding it , and therefore he put in the five pound more then was lost . It was Maister Hobsons fortune to find the same some of forty pounds , and brought the same to the ...
... five pounds , should have the five pounds for his labour for finding it , and therefore he put in the five pound more then was lost . It was Maister Hobsons fortune to find the same some of forty pounds , and brought the same to the ...
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ALEXANDER DYCE Bankes BAY HORSE booth bull-baiting coaches Congreve cunning devill divell dost doth downe drinke Duchess of Marlborough F.S.A. THOMAS fashion feare fellow foole Frost Fair frozen gentleman George Berkeley grace gull haberdasher hand Harts hast hath heare heart heere hell honest horse husband I'le Iohn kind landlord live London London Bridge Lord Maister Hob Mandilions Marocco merry mony ne're neighbours never Percy Society PETER CUNNINGHAM poem poet poore pray printed purse Queene quoth Maister Hobson River Thames roasted Rowlands sayd sayes scurvy servant shew shillings shore sweare taverne tearme thaw thee theeves there's thing thinke Thomson tobacco tract trade tricks twas unto villaine ware weare wench whome whore wife WILLIAM WILLIAM CHAPPELL William Congreve WILLIAM SANDYS wine withall wonder